Indulgent Fantasy Segue

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Alice is positively furious with Bob, but she's sitting still and trying her damnedest to keep her rage at a low simmer. Finally, she cannot take anymore; she snaps and breaks a chair over Bob's head, empties an automatic weapon into his body and takes a roaring chainsaw to the remains before cackling like a madwoman over her former friend's corpse.

...Now back to reality: Alice is still sitting there, still giving the evil eye to a very much unharmed Bob. What just happened? We were treated to an Indulgent Fantasy Segue, where the show went straight into Alice's head and showed us what she was thinking without announcing it to the audience first. It's almost exclusively a comedic device, and almost always involves the dreamer inflicting sudden, shocking violence on someone else.

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Occasionally the thing the character would like to do is shown to be in complete contrast to what they actually do. A particularly detached individual may even get angry or concerned about events within their fantasy segue, and take these out on whoever they're talking to.

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Anime & Manga

Early in Ranma ½, Akane runs into Ranma and Shampoo in the bath. The next chapter opens with Ranma vehemently declaring the evidence to be entirely circumstantial, all while Akane cries and screams gibberishhysterically. Ranma then slaps her once, decisively, to shut her up... but it was all just his own fantasy. Confident, he strides out to confront the real Akane, who is all smiles and cheer and kicks him into the lower stratosphere.

A non-comedic twist in Macross Plus. After a humiliating end to his YF-21 test , Guld's Valkyrie ends up on top ofIsamu's. Guld imagines how easy it would be, at the speed and altitude they're flying, to apply a slight downwards force and smash Isamu horrifically into the ground. Unfortunately for the both of them, the YF-21 responds to mental commands, and does exactly what Guld had only imagined.

In the Lupin III manga, the titular character finds himself captured by Inspector Zenigata. Lupin then drops his pen and the Inspector picks it up, only to get kicked in the face and to have Lupin escape. The scene then cuts back to Zenigata telling Lupin to keep dreaming and to pick up his own pen.

Ghost in the Shell has an episode centered on one character's increasingly elaborate fantasy segues of killing the VIP he chauffeurs for political reasons. Given this is interspersed with his plans to commit the attack, tension is added to each fantasy segue. At the end of the episode, Section 9 concludes that hell never take the final step.

Non-comedic example: issue #7 of the short-lived horror comic Twisted Tales contained a story called "Shut-In" that was almost entirely one long, very gruesome fantasy segue. And then another just before the story's end. Can be found at the blog The Horrors of It All, the March 7, 2009 entry. (Not directly linked because the comic is NSFW.)

After The Authority takes over the USA, they end up having to fulfill mundane leadership tasks such as meeting with foreign dignitaries. Midnighter usually daydreams about violently murdering said world leaders. For added comedy, his teammates complain about this, because these fantasies get shared telepathically.

The Joker has an indulgent fantasy segue in Batman R.I.P. during a rorschach test. It involves the death of billions from airborne Joker Virus, the lunatics escaping Arkham, and the Joker cutting Batman and Robin's throats with a straight razor. Their blood forms a flower shape.

Therapist: What do you see in this one? Joker: Another pretty flower...

Empowered: Happens sometimes, often with a character saying something they don't actually say or thinking more perverted thoughts. The violent variant does show up but is rarer. These segments are always ended with the phrase "END COUNTERFACTUAL SCENARIO."

In one issue of Superman, Superman of all people momentarily visualizes beating Manchester Black to death after Black apparently killed Lois Lane, only to snap back to reality and arrest him instead, saying that killing Black wouldn't bring Lois back.

In Old Man Logan, the eponymous character has one of these when the Hulk Gang shows up.

The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye has Cyclonus, who had not been on the friendliest terms with fellow Lost Light member Whirl, be given a deal by the latter to settle all scores if they made it off Luna 1 alive together. Later, when Whirl asked Cyclonus if their deal was still good, he accepts after he imagines shoving Whirl into a nearby smelting pool.

Comic Strips

In one Bloom County strip, Opus fantasizes about taking a firehose to all the people smoking in a no-smoking section of a restaurant, before concluding wistfully that "Ms. Manners wouldn't approve."

In The Circus, the Little Tramp imagines himself knocking his romantic rival on his butt. This is done with a then-innovative special effect showing the Tramp stepping out of his own body.

The end of Dumb and Dumber, where in a fit of jealousy, Lloyd imagines emptying a revolver into Mary's husband before Mary snaps him out of his violent reverie; so she can introduce him to her husband.

The early 1990s rollerblading flick Airborne shows the Jerk Jock getting so angry about The New Guy flirting with his girl, he rushes the kid and tosses him out of the third-story window. Cut back to the Jock, still fuming at the new guy, who is completely unhurt and still flirting with his girl.

The film Griff the Invisible is full of them, as the protagonist likes to pretend he is a superhero by night.

The scene from True Lies where Harry fantasizes about smashing Simon (Bill Paxton)'s face, for messing with his wife and then bragging to him about it, is particularly hilarious.

Mean Girls, where Cady imagines beating the living daylights out of the Alpha Bitch over the guy they both want. Then she remembers she's no longer in the wilds of Africa, so she instead puts on a friendly smile.

At the very end of the film, Cady's narration reveals that the peace may not remain intact for much longer with the introduction of Junior Plastics. They share a brief death stare- AND GET RAMMED BY A BUS! "Only kidding!"

In the British 2001 comedy-drama Mean Machine, based heavily on the classic movie The Longest Yard, you see the inmates-team's psychotic goalie 'Monk' having one of these during the big match. Of course, considering that he's a raving lunatic who has been known to kill people with his bare hands, you really can't tell that it's just an Indulgent Fantasy Segue until it ends...

Not exactly violent, but not nice or professional either: Dr. Sobel in Analyze This imagines rudely yelling what he considers obvious at his patient.

In Spy Kids, Gregorio Cortez dreams of fighting an obnoxious parent, throwing him through the school window, and being cheered by the whole school.

Segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill". After finding a meteor, Jordy's has fantasies about selling it to a scientist for a lot of money, and later one about the scientist refusing to pay any money for it because Jordy broke it in half after pouring water on it.

Segment "The Crate". While at a party, Professor Northrup fantasizes about killing his wife Wilma by shooting her. The assembled guests applaud him, then Wilma yells at him and he snaps out of it. He does it again when he imagines strangling her.

Smiley Face is essentially a string of these stretched to feature length.

Throw Momma From The Train with Danny DeVito's myriad ways to kill his mother.

American Psycho could invoke this, depending on your interpretation of the movie. It's deliberately made ambiguous to what extent Patrick Bateman is telling the truth, but some moments are a bit too blatant to ignore, like casually telling a barrista that he wants to "stab her to death and play with her blood". She doesn't even react.

Used in Slumdog Millionaire when Jamal meets his brother (on a scaffold in a skyscraper under construction) after years apart, and imagines rushing him off the side and killing them both. (Arguably an Imagine Spot, as this is in a flashback and we know Jamal is alive in the present.)

Suicide Squad (2016) - Enchantress starts offering to the Suicide Squad to have their wishes fulfilled in exchange for allegiance to her near the end of the film, and starts by installing happy scenarios in the minds of each of them. Diablo doesn't buy it since he refuses to believe her magic can restore his dead wife and children that he burned himself.

High Fidelity had a scene where Rob's ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend Ian shows up at his store and smarmily asks if Rob can stop acting so hostile. When he says "So, shall we leave it at that then?" Rob swears at him and tells him to get out. Then it cuts to Ian saying "So, shall we leave it at that then?" again, to which Rob reacts by trying to physically assault Ian, who flees quickly while Dick and Barry hold Rob back from kicking his ass. Ian says the line a third time, which now depicts Dick smacking Ian in the jaw with a telephone, all three assaulting him and kicking him on the ground, and finally Dick crushing him to death with a massive A/C unit. Finally, it cuts to Ian saying the line again in real life, to which Rob reacts by rather anti-climactically shrugging.

A cut scene from Pulp Fiction had Jules in the diner at the end violently killing the two robbers, only to cut back to him sitting there, probably cursing his recent commitment to non-violence.

Many surrealistically weird and disturbing scenes in the movie Belle de Jour eventually turn out to be the titular protagonist's masochist fantasies.

From the movie Monster-In-Law, Viola imagines smashing Charlie's head into the food repeatedly, while in reality, they were smiling politely.

Charlie gets one of these as payback though: when Viola is asking her a list of personal questions, Charlie imagines smashing Viola with a frying pan. In reality, once again, she is sitting there and smiling.

In Requiem for a Dream when Marion is at the restaurant with her psychiatrist, she imagines herself impaling his hand with a fork.

Also at the beginning with Harry imagining stealing a cop's gun to play catch with it.

There's one of these in Ravenous (1999), set to a song called "Cannibal Fantasy" of all things.

At the beginning of the Soviet film Moscow  Cassiopeia, Vitya accidentally reads aloud a note indicating that a girl in his class likes him. Then another boy starts playing a march on his tape player, causing everyone to burst out laughing. Vitya imagines walking throw the rows, striking everyone with a finger (It Makes Sense in Context). Cut back to Vitya simply standing there, adjusting his glasses.

A not-insignificant part of the 1947 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is made up of these, with Mitty (a pulp writer), slipping into various fantasy segues ranging from murders and high adventure to a musical number where he plays a Camp Gay fashion designer.

Same holds true of the 2013 remake. In this case, Mitty is an editor at LIFE magazine, and his fantasies include a superhero fight with his rival and doing skateboarding tricks to impress his love interest.

In one of the modern-day interpretations of Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet engages in these frequently, such as throwing a Bible at Collins' head amid cheers from the gathered church congregation, or hurling water into Darcy's face and storming out in a huff. These always take place in slow motion and with specific background music.

Alan has one in Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa when he imagines taking the shotgun off Pat and going on an action hero rampage through the studio to rescue the hostages. However, he spends so long imagining it that he fails to actually pick up the shotgun.

In The Amazing Spider Man 2, Max Dillon daydreams lashing out at his boss, Mr. Smythe (B.J. Novak), grabbing him and screaming at him, before the film cuts back to Max standing silently. Granted, this was more of a nod to his mental instability.

In Horrible Bosses after Nick learns that his boss David Harken has screwed him out of a promotion by promoting himself in spite of all the hard work Nick did for him, he immediately imagines throwing Harken out of the nearest window to the delight of the other mistreated employees.

The Limey: When Wilson is inconspicuously attending one of Valentine's parties to scope out the man who killed his daughter, he fantasizes about just shooting him right there and then in full view of everyone.

Although Friday is a comedy, it has a dramatic application of this trope at the end. Craig confronts the neighborhood thug Deebo with a gun, which his family begs him not to use. Deebo says, "Yeah, 'put that gun down, son'... and get knocked out like your father used to." Craig briefly imagines pulling the trigger on Deebo, who had caused so much hurt to so many people, but remembers his father's earlier lesson and sets the gun aside.

At one point, American Animals appears to move into The Heist, which goes off flawlessly with Warren displaying James Bond levels of badass-ness. However, this turns out to be Warren envisioning how the heist will go. The actual robbery runs a lot less smoothly.

A variation is used in Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream. Luke Skywalker has a Force premonition (which is almost always predictive of the future) of his friend Wedge Antilles pulling a blaster on an Obstructive Bureaucrat come to visit, and to give him marching orders that are not to the benefit of him, his friends, or even the New Republic in general. Luke suppresses his reaction when he (quickly) realizes this wasn't what Wedge intended to do...just what Wedge wanted to do.

Discworld: In a case of a non-violent, yet criminal Indulgent Fantasy, von Lipwig in Going Postal has a brief (one run-on paragraph long) fantasy of abandoning Adora Belle and his position as Postmaster immediately after Mr. Pump discontinues monitoring him, but snaps out of it when he realizes his old con-artist career just wouldn't hold the same thrill anymore. In keeping with the theme of an second chances that had been running through the book, he mentally lives out his entire miserable life up to his lonely death until "an angel appeared".

Sometimes you do get more than one.

In Brother Odd, Odd Thomas, faced with an Eldritch Abomination, invites it to kiss his ass. He then (narrating) describes in graphic and hilarious detail how it proceeds to eviscerate him, before coming back to reality and admitting that he did, in fact, escape.

The Handmaid's Tale has several of these, due to the narrator telling the story after the fact and trying to decide between idealizing herself and telling her true story.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the inspiration for the above two films of the same name. The story itself is just a series of Mitty's fantasies as he goes about his dull routine.

Live-Action TV

Used often on Days of Our Lives, though often for dramatic purposes instead of funny.

Nate in Six Feet Under is informed by a doctor that he has an untreatable yet potentially fatal medical condition. However the doctor gives him this news in such a nonchalant and insensitive manner that Nate fantasises about violently murdering him on the spot. He resorts to verbally abusing the man instead.

This joke was used about 50 times in every single Ally McBeal episode ever. For one character, the fantasies turned into hallucinations brought on by a brain tumor.

In The Young Ones episode "Summer Holiday", Neil gets so frustrated by the others' insults, that he turns into The Incredible Hulk, bursts out of his clothes and beats up the others. When he snaps out of the fantasy, everything is back to normal, but his clothes are still shredded to bits.

Vyvyan: What's happened to all your clothes, Neil? Neil: I think I'd better just go upstairs and lie down for a bit, actually.

In Scrubs, this happens so often that when something outrageous does happen, such as Dr. Cox punching Dr. Kelso in the nose for berating Elliot, the audience assumes that the show is about to "snap back" at any moment. This isn't helped by the fact that one such "segue" went on so long it became a form of All Just a Dream.

In an episode Grissom gets stabbed in the throat. As they were only moments away from a cliffhanger anyway, it's perhaps a pity the incident turns out to be a delusion.

Another episode opened with lab tech Archie sorting through a suitcase full of cocaine, documenting all the packets of coke. He lifts one up, and BOOM, a pressure-triggered bomb goes off, killing Archie. Turns out, it was the first in a series of scenarios in Hodge's prototype board-game, "Lab Rats".

One episode ends with the murderer of the week undertaking a heist to the tune of Queen's "Under Pressure". Everything goes exactly according to plan - but then it snaps back to reveal the man was actually fatally injured by his own bomb and the "success" part was a dying delusion.

In one episode of Two and a Half Men, Charlie imagines tearing Alan's arm off and beating him with it.

Battlestar Galactica: A relatively rare non-humorous example showed up in the season 4 opener, where Tigh, having just discovered that he's a Cylon, imagines that he shoots Adama, and then snaps back to reality. Particularly nightmarish since, at the end of Season 1, the exact same thing happened, and that time it was in-continuity.

An interesting variant is seen in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager in which Tuvok, bothered by Neelix trying to get him to smile, snaps and throttles Neelix to death... only to utter those words immortal to the Star Trek universe, "computer - end program."

In season 3, Miguel Prado finds Dexter at the scene of a fresh kill and accidentally gets blood on his shirt. He later gives Dexter the bloody shirt as a token of friendship and a guarantee of secrecy. When Dexter becomes suspicious and tests the shirt, he discovers that it's a fake, daubed with animal blood. His explosion of rage is revealed to be this trope.

In season 7, there are two examples in the same episode. The first is Dexter standing in line at the post office for a long time, and when he reaches the front the desk lady closes the line. Then he imagines slitting her throat in front of everyone. He imagines doing the same to Masuka back at the office when he imagines Masuka insulting him.

All over the place in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, and its remake Reggie Perrin, as Reggie constantly fantasises to escape the endless drudgery of his life. Some of them are very brief compared to other instances of the trope - a wrecking ball will crash through the wall and knock Reggie's mother-in-law away, then it'll snap back again, all in the space of two seconds.

After Vogler has been using his promise of money to fight with House in the first season, an episode opens with House telling Vogler he has liver cancer and a better chance of dying than living, but House assures him they'll do everything they can, elating Vogler, who finally admits out-loud that House is damn good and is humbled by this treatment after spending so much time torturing House because of his "unorthodox" ways. Of course, House is daydreaming.

A rare serious occurrence in Medium when Allison helps with jury selection for a trial, using her psychic talents to figure out who the prosecution should try to get on the jury even if their files suggest they're not the types of people who would give them what they want; namely, the death penalty. One of the files marked "rejected" is for a religious woman whom Allison "sees" next to a comatose woman in a hospital, talking about how her beliefs don't jibe with ending another's life prematurely. The comatose woman is her brain-dead mother; cut to massive fit of rage as she rips apart the room, destroying the life-support equipment, revealing that she wants nothing more than to have it turned off and feels smothered by her religion. Cut back to the woman sitting quietly, with the room intact.

Spaced uses this quite a lot. The trope was so associated with the programme for Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright that they consciously avoided doing it when making Shaun of the Dead, according to their commentary track for the film.

One obvious moment is when Daisy accuses Tim of sabotaging her relationship out of bitterness:

Tim: Yes. Yes. And I'd do it again! I do it again in an instant! AHAHAHAHAHA! (leaps out of the window)

The character of Tyres is also portrayed with heavy use of this, his sudden mood-whiplashes leaving other characters unsure of if they have imagined what he just said. Finally, by the first episode of the second series, Daisy seems so used to her life being full of this, she seems to expect it after she beats up a couple of Matrix-style agents with previously unrevealed kung-fu prowess:

Daisy: That just happened, didn't it? Tim: Um... yeah.

In My Mad Fat Diary, Rae does this to Chloe in Its a Wonderful Rae: Part 2 by dragging Chloe from the cafe they're sitting in out onto the street, dropping her in the road. Rae then gets into a van and proceeds to run her over before it's revealled that the whole sequence was all in Rae's head.

Happy Days: In "They Call It Potsie Love," Joanie develops a crush on Potsie. She falls asleep on the living room couch and fantasizes about getting married to him.

The episode "The Recombination Hypothesis" turns out to be an episode-long fantasy about Leonard restarting his relationship with Penny.

In "The Thespian Catalyst", Raj has a series of fantasies in which Howard lets him have sex with Bernadette, culminating in a Bollywood dance number.

Oz: Rebadow, a kindly old prisoner, starts to become obsessed with the idea of killing after the leader of one of the gangs forces him to take out one of his rivals. At one point he fantasizes about laying into the crowd in the cafeteria with a machine gun before he snaps out of it.

This is the central gimmick of Samurai Gourmet. Once (or more) an episode mild-mannered Kasumi will indulge in a fantasy where a Sengoku ronin demonstrates how a real badass would handle his social dilemma. Only once was violence the samurai's answer; usually it's closer to Easy Evangelism, though holding a sword does help. However, the fantasies are not pure indulgence, as they always inspire increased assertiveness in Kasumi—not that he follows through every time.

Voyagers!: The action sequence that opens the pilot episode, "Voyagers", is Jeffrey Jones' daydream as he imagines him and his family being attacked by pirates and himself trying to rescue his parents. Cut to reality, and it turns out Jeff is an orphan.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Dennis becomes so frustrated with his new neighbor that he strips naked, grabs a rake and beats the man to death. Then Mac asks him what he's doing- turns out he's standing in the middle of the yard, fuming to himself.

In Blindspot, Roman finally decides to tell his girlfriend the truth about himself. He does. Then she stabs him. Cue the "snap back", and him continuing to lie.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine, "The Big House, Part 2": Rosa Diaz jumps through the safety glass in prison and attacks Lt. Hawkins, just like she said she would, but it turns out to be her vivid imagination. Hawkins is the dirty cop who got her (who's innocent) to jail. Lampshaded and used as a Brick Joke because Rosa previously said to Captain Holt and Detective Santiago that beating her up in her imagination wouldn't be satisfying.

Rosa: How do I stop myself from smashing through the glass and squeezing the life out of her with my bare hands? Amy: Maybe you could just imagine doing that. It'd be probably just as fun as actually doing it, right? Rosa: No.

Something similar happens at the beginning, only without Varric being there.

In Poker Night at the Inventory, if Heavy loses a hand, he will occasionally flip the table and begin massacring the other players. Shortly afterward, the scene cuts back to Heavy sitting at the table, sternly asking to be dealt a new hand.

One of the ''Tales From New Terra'' vignettes has Juno "Tank" Steele confronting the Dark Elder Axen Moon and his two alien Shade companions. At the end of the vignette, it's revealed that the whole sequence was imagined by Juno Steele, an overseer at a refinery in an attempt to liven up his otherwise boring job.

Lowain in Granblue Fantasy Versus isn't exactly a great fighter, but him and his bros can manage to pull of some crazy things to keep up with the rest of the cast. When you get to their win screen though, it shows they were just imagining the entire fight at the bar.

Visual Novels

In Umineko: When They Cry, the scene where Maria kills her mother Rosa over and over again in retaliation for Rosa tearing apart her beloved stuffed lion, Sakutarou is implied to either be this or All Just a Dream. Either way, it was all in Maria's head.

Web Animation

Sonic for Hire does this in "Two Bad Characters" in which Tails offers to be in a movie with Sonic, Sonic's response is to shoot Tails to death while laughing crazy, until Tails wakes him up.

Also happens in an earlier episode, where the Light Warriors are trying to make sense of the Doom Cult's summoning ritual. Thief asks Black Mage what it says. After some escalating images starting with heads popping off and culminating with the planet being destroyed, we cut right back to them still standing unharmed in the temple. Black Mage finally replies that "it says the most beautiful things".

Alien Hand Syndrome: While waiting on a station platform with her friend Erin, the shy, retiring Mina suddenly narrows her eyes, walks toward a total stranger, shoves him in front of an oncoming train and grins wickedly as his blood splatters a warning sign. Then Erin tells her to wake up because their train has arrived, and she wonders why the hell she would ever imagine such a thing. The sequence proper begins here, but in the preceding stripMina's shadow turns demonic.

Web Videos

Noob has one it its Season 3 premiere. Works perfectly to remind the audience how much Gaea hates Omega Zell, but is also a Dirty Coward that won't get in a fight if she can avoid it.

The episode "Bullocks to Stan" had Stan finding out his boss and daughter are sleeping together. He then suddenly shoots his boss and chloroforms Hayley, but notices the mailman and chases him down before killing him. He then sees a blind man who quickly points out he's blind and didn't see anything, getting Stan to back off. We then suddenly cut back to the moment where Stan found about his boss and daughter's affair, the whole sequence being a daydream... though Stan realizes the bystander in his daydream was lying about being "blind".

The episode "Surro-Gate" had Francine confess to Stan about having become a surrogate mother for a gay couple's child. Stan flipped out and came at her with a broken beer bottle. Then with a chainsaw. Then with a ferocious leopard. Then with a ferocious leopardholdinga chainsaw. All this is then revealed to be Francine worrying what would happen if she told Stan the truth. And, since the world of American Dad! is so bizarre and Stan is so nuts, all of this actually seemed entirely possible until Francine woke up from her fantasy.

In "100 A.D.", when Stan finds a letter from Hayley saying she has eloped with Jeff, he gets so angry, the letter burns up in his hand and he proceeds to fly around the world and reverse time. It turns out he merely fainted and hit his head on the corner of the table, though he still thinks he's traveled back in time.

"Fartbreak Hotel" has Francine feeling burned out on her routine and unappreciated by her family. When they begin complaining about a small change in the usual dinner, she calmly explains that she had been indulging a fantasy where she didn't have to put up with their petty complaints and clean up after them while brutally murdering them all one by one. The scene then switches back to reality where her family stares aghast (apparently having heard her describe their violent deaths) and quickly begins wolfing down dinner while telling her how great it is.

In Justice League Unlimited, Milo, a third-rate supervillain with a falling position in the Government Conspiracy, has one of these fantasies. After one poor performance review too many, he pulls out a laser gun from under the table and...

Megas XLR does this for the benefit of both the main character and a good deal of the audience: Coop, struggling through the endless bureaucracy of the Department of Motor Vehicles, groans that he hates the DMV... then imagines himself piloting Megas in an elaborate destruction of the DMV building, starting with stomping on it repeatedly and culminating in an extended weapons barrage that leaves it as a smoking crater. At which point he opens fire again. Cathartic.

The whole premise of the "Magnificent Muttley" segments of Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines is that Muttley fantasizes about beating Dick Dastardly in settings where the former is the hero and the latter is the villain.

The music video for The Simpsons' "Do the Bartman" works like this; it's not clear that Bart has only been imagining changing the music and taking over the recital till the end.

During the Touch-A-Trucka-Thon in the Trollhunters episode "Airheads", Strickler mocks Jim over losing the Killing Stone and the fact that he is dating his mother. In reaction, Jim forfeits the contest by letting go of the car and punching Strickler to the ground in front of everybody. It then cuts back to the real world, Jim still touching the truck and the punch not having occurred in the first place.

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